Union-suit.



J. A. SCRIVEN.

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APPLICATION FILED APR-9,1913- Patented June 5,1917.

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J. A. SCRIVEN.

UNION SUIT.

APPLICATION FILED APR-9.1913.

Patented June 5, 1917.

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UNION-SUIT.

Specification of Letters latent.

Application filed April 9, 1913. Serial 1V0. 759,919.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JEREMIAH A. ScRIvEN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Union-Suits, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to union garments and has for its object the production of suits of this character which shall meet more satisfactorily than .union suits heretoforev known the convenience and comfort of the wearer and which by reason of 7 invention; Fig. 4 is a rear view of still another form of garment showing my improvement; Fig. v5 is a view similar to Fig. 3 and illustratingstill another type of garment in which my improvement is included; and Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing another form of my invention.

For convenience the first garment illustrated will serve as an example to show the nature of this invention. The garment comprises the usual upper or body port1on A, and for. the purposes of this invention this body portion may be constructed in any desired manner, with or without elastic insertions at various appropriate P0111138, sleeveless or with sleeves, and any suitable material may be used. The material employed in Fig. 1 is cambric or nainsook, the garment being particularly deslgned for summer use. The elastic'waist .band B.

is shown as attached to the lower edge of the body portion A by meansof the ridge or seam G. The body portion A, as well as theelastic insertion B, is open at the front. The lower part of the garment is shown as attached by the ridge or seam O to the lower part of the elastic insertion B. and the material composing the lower part of the garment. is in the case of F1g 1, formed of the same material as that which 1s used Patented June 5, 1917.

for the upper or body portion A. The rear of the elastic insertion B is'show'n as relatively high up upon the back, the object of this construction being described later. The lower part of the garment D in Fig. 1 is formed, speaking generally, of two halves, one for each leg. The upper part-of one of these halves having a. terminal edge. D

extending from the crotch to the elastic insertion, said edge lying in the same general line as the terminal edge of the insertion and of the body portion. For convenience we may call this line the button line, be- 1 cause it carries "the buttons X down the front of the garment. The upper edge of this part of the lowerportion .of the gar-' ment is attached to the waist portion of the garment all the way from the button line to a point beyond the middleof the center of the back and the corresponding portion of the other part of the lower portion of the garment is similarly attached beginning at the button hole line and running also to a point beyond the center of the back, so that it overlaps at the rear the button section. The two leg'portions at the rear are provided with free disconnected terminal edges E and E and the two sections again become joined together along a line located slightly to the rear of the crotch where, as

in the upper construction, the button hole section overlaps the button section to approximately the same extent as these two parts overlap at the waist. At the point 'where these two parts overlap at the crotch,

there isa straight seam extending clear across the garment from one leg opening to the other. This straight seam F, shown in Fig. 2, servesforthe main portion ofits length to connect the tubular parts of the leg portion and at the crotch this seam serves to unite the front portion of the garment with the rear portion, in overlapping condition as described. The front of the garment is provided with turned over or hemmed portions G and H and G and H. The two hems H and H meet in the crotch region where the -lowermost inner edges of these hems are fastened together by stitches whose general direction is longitudinally of the garment. This connection is shown in the drawing as comprisinga small gusset I, the edges of which are attached to the inner edges of the hems HH by stitching indicated in dotted lines in Figs. 1, 2,3 and 6. These rows of stitches run longitudinally of the garment and of the edges -of the hems HH and serve to unite permanently the lowermost inner edges of the fabric forming the front opening of the garment.

. Constructed according to theseprinci'ples, it will be seen that the front of the garment is wholly independent, from the standthe back of the garment. Many modificapoint of the designer, of the rear part of the garment. This enables' the'manufacturer to give special attention to the shape, configuration, design and construction as well as fit of the front part ofthe garment from the waist down. The same thing is true of the rear of the garment. By joining the front and the rear together by the transverse seam at right angles to the length of the garment, the suit becomes a harmonious and uniform entity, each part of which has, however, been constructed with an eye to its own specific requirements. The rear overlapping portions of the two leg sections are shown as being hemmedat J and J, the opening being of relatively great length". The'length of this opening is determined by the point of attachment of the overlapping part to the waist of the garment and for that reason, where it is deslred to have a very long opening, the waist band or insertion is caused to pass high up across tions of my idea are possible, as for instance, that the terminal portions J and J of the rear openlng may be made elastic, so long as the main princlple'of the invention is retained, which so far as concerns this rear even as far as'the leg openings themselves. In this latter case, 'as shown in F g. 3, the.

opening, consists in the overlapping portion joined in the crotch bya transverse seam to; the front portion of the garment which is built up quite independently of the rear portion. The extent to which the rear portions overlap must, of course, be largely left to thedesigner and that is an added advantage flowing from the construction of this application because the designer of the rear portion is free to work out his ideas practically without reference to the manner in which the front of'the garment is designed. The elastic fabric, if employed for these rear overlapping parts,- may, of course, be as wide" or as narrow as desired for special cases and may extend down into. the leg portions to any extent that may, be requisite,

indicated in the drawings by the fine lines intended to represent the ridges of the knit material. Thus the waist band is shown throughout as elastic in a direction longitudinally of the garment While the rear flaps are. elastic transversely of the garment.

Ilhgve found that in some cases, the overlapping rear portions may be advantageously duplicated. In that case the rear part of the garment assumes the form of a flap L which may be provided with insertions L of elastic material extending into the leg portion if desired. These insertions L as illustrated may be connected by means of an elastic strip L the wales of which run at an angle to those of the insertion L as shown in Fig. 5, the said flap L being secured in position on the wearer with two or more buttons"L'- at the top or with a string. The crotch construction in that case is, however, the same as'before, except that in this particular drawing, the seam F is not necessarily a continuous seam ade-with the same thread, but may be made of seam sections all located in the.line F, thereby permitting the front and rear portions of the garment to be constructed as independent units and united by the transverse seam F, that idea being of the essence of this invention. Inthis form the gusset I may also be of elastic fabric.

Instead of the single seam- F, two ofsuch seams may be used, inclosing between them an additional strip of material running transversely through the garment and through'the crotch portion thereof, and that strip of material may be elastic, or'otherwise, as desired. An illustration of this variation is shown in Fig. 6.

Obviously the waist band need not be entirely elastic, but may consist of an elastic portion in the back of such shapeas will afford a slight elastic resistance in a'longitudinal direction to the overlapping rear flaps. The elastic portions, may, however, be entirely dispensed with. It will be seen from the foregoing that my union suit differs from all union suits heretofore known in consisting, so far as the lower portion of the garment is concerned, of two individual parts which are individual with respect to the construction of the front portion and the rear-.portion'thereof in contradistinction to the older union suits which have separately made or separated right andleft leg portions. In other words in my garment the front portions are independently united; the rear portions are fashioned independently of the front portion and thus when front and rear configurations have been determined andthe frontparts of the garment united together, the garment is finished by means of the transverse seam F which unites the independently united front portions of the garment with the overlapping rear portions. According to my construction the right and left leg portions can also be given distinctive construction just as Well as the front and rear portions of each leg; It will be observed that in spite of the fact that I am able by this invention to give any desired shape or configuration to any part of the front or rear portion of the legs, the fabric which composes the front and rear portion of each leg is continuous (or substantially continuous when insertions are used) and that the seam F not only unites the edges of the continuous fabric but preserves the special configuration and construction which has been given to the front part of the garment and to the rear part of the garment.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is: I

1. A union suithaving a front opening from the neck to the crotch, the edges of said opening normally overlapping each other to an equal extent from the neck to a point below the waist, the lower terminal portion of said edges being positively spaced apart immediately above the crotch whereby the edges of said opening are prevented from overlapping at said point, a rear portion open from the crotch to the waist and a transverse seam to unite said rear portion with said front portion in the crotch.

2. A union suit having a front opening from the neck to the crotch, the edges of said opening normally overlapping each other to an equal-extent from the neck to a point below the waist, the lower terminal portionof said. edges being positively spaced apart immediately above the crotch being united by seams extending longitudi- 'nally of the garment and of said edges whereby the edges of said opening are prevented from overlapping at said point, a rear portion open from the crotchto the waist and a transverse seam to unite said rear portion withsaid front portion in the crotch. 7

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JEREMIAH A SCRIVEN.

Witnesses:

J OHN REINscHMmT, J. A. So IvEN, Jr. 

